Below are four recordings of talks. I’ve been hoping to do a write up about these, but haven’t found the time, so I’ll just post the links anyway – before they get old. The first two are quite interesting: But I Don’t Code!, by Alan Cox (topics covered) Workshop about free Java with folk from Read more »
The IcedTea project has been launched by GNU Classpath. It’s goal is to make Sun’s recently freed Java implementation, called OpenJDK, work in free software environments. This involves replacing some binary blobs with code from GNU Classpath, and making or adapting a free software build system for OpenJDK. As the announcement says, it’s just in Read more »
Two positive aspects of choosing the GPL for Sun’s Java are that it is a copyleft licence, and that it means Sun’s project will be able to share code with the GNU Compiler for Java and GNU Classpath. Sun have released under version 2 of the GPL, but have said that they will consider version Read more »
In a November 1st interview, Richard Stallman was asked for his thoughts on if Sun free Java (as they have done today). Below is a transcript of that section of the interview. The whole interview his at the following URL: http://mirror.linuxquestions.org/pub/archive/tllts/tllts_165-11-01-06.mp3 [50:35] Interviewer: the last time we spoke, you mentioned two projects that you were Read more »